ISABEL SÁNCHEZ
forms and textures in the nature


1st to the 30th October 2009
Inauguration: Thursday the 1st October from 19 h


During the month of October, the Espai Cultural Francolí, venue of teresarius: promotors d'art, will show for the first time in Barcelona the work of the Valencian artist Isabel Sánchez, that goes around the nature, its forms and textures, with some works (painting, sculpture-pottery and engraving) that will not leave indifferent anybody.

The artist wants to endow with soul in the space suggested by the textures and the forms of the minerals broken, of the trunks of the trees, in the different organic ways that she presents us, and makes it through a re-interpretation of the nature, adapting oneself to the needs of expression. Paintings and sculptures of a strong expressiveness and convincing, a set of forms, volumes and textures, that enjoy the sintetitzation, of the reality, harmonizing and searching lights and shadows in the volumes, are the result.

So, Isabel Sánchez, deegred in Fine Arts by the faculty of San Carlos of Valencia, presents us an exhibition of her long artistic trajectory, where several stages of her work are gathered, from her beginning as a sculptor in pottery until her last works in painting.

On the sculpture-pottery two well defined stages are seen. In the first, the pieces are more sober and robust, standing out the recreation in the minerals, of its forms and textures harmonizing volumes and using always discreetly the color subordinated by force of the textures. In the following stage a change in the representation, where the color is stressed, keeps on being appreciated with the use on the varnishes with showier colors, as well as the use of the polishes giving them a major variety in the expression of the forms.

In the painting the nature is also the great inspirer of the pictures, where the motive are different trees, in particular their bark, their texture and their forms, some times soft and others strong, searching a part that draws the attention because of its color.


3rd Open Workshops Day Art Farró-Putxet

Saturday the 3rd October of 2009, from 10 to 20 h


For third consecutive year the artists and artisans of the Group ART FARRÓ-PUTXET will open their workshops to the public and invite everybody to sharing their space of work, as well as the environment of the Pl.. Mañé and Flaquer where some will set forth.

The Espai Cultural Francolí and Montserrat Pla and there represented artists will also take part of the event.

The activity is complemented with a collective exhibition of the participants that will be open until the 10th October in the Centre Cívic Casa Sagnier, Brusi 61

More info at:
http://www.artfarroputxet.cat
http://www.artfarro-putxet.blogspot.com

10 D'ART GROUP SHOW


3rd to 25th September 2009
Inauguration: Thursday 10th September from 7pm

To start the the new season 2009-10, during the month of September, the Espai Cultural Francolí, venue of teresarius: promotors d'art, has trusted the gallerist and photographer Carlos Moreno to curate a new collective exhibition that gathers 10 artists of different styles and techniques: Andrés Mauri, David Casadesús, Edith Cohen-Gewerc,  Isabel Cosin, Ana Molina, Pallàs, Inés Rosal, Marta Rourich,  Rodney Samuelson, Joan Tauleria.

Andrés Mauri is a photographer who searches the precise equilibrium between what it is or can be real and what it is not. A method of constant work that finds its main tool of speech in its capacity to extract aspects supposedly hidden in the common and routine one.
David Casadesús is a painter strongly marked by the impressionists, he frequents the landscape gardening of the region in which he lives, as well as the still lifes, the flowers and the human figure.
On the delayed work of the Israeli artist Edith Cohen-Gewerc we find a constant, that is her choice from concentrating her research in the exploration of the interior landscapes of the human being, exercising an attraction in the viewer towards the reflection on the multiplicity of possible realities.
Isabel Cosin is one skillful and proved artist in the conjunction of oil and collage, she uses materials that ennoble her canvases, such as a bread of gold, silver and copper, elements that shine and create reflections on putting on the light on them, emerging like this new readings of the work.
Ana Molina is a great landscape gardener in the field of the photography that combines her interest in freezing with the gift of the opportunity the fleeting instant. The exuberant but ephemeral nature maintains forever all its splendor in the magical images of this young and promising photographer.
The artist Pallàs is a tireless worker in the research of new ways of expression, offers an abstraction still more conceptual but still like this more richer, in her research of "suggesting more with less".
With Inés Rosal we find women and men that they are without showing their face. Men and women who do not exist but who give form to their clothes. Birds, hats, sticks, clothes... a symbolic universe in which this worthy heiress of the great surrealists of formerly lives.
The self-taught painter Marta Rourich is very influenced for her profession, the graphic design, showing her floral works narrowly tied with the mentioned knowledge, not only from the technical point of view, but also on time of deciding its composition.
Rodney Samuelson is a catalyst of different cultural visions, bringing a conceptual innovation in the form of amalgam of civilizations. From the American nativism to the Gothic stained glass windows, passing through the mythology of the children's books, he creates a personal pictorial environment, very well solved technically.
'To Create is to express a thought across new paths', like this the artist Joan Tauleria summarizes some persevering plastic restlessness in the time, a vital need to observe the reality that surrounds him and an externalization of his interior world through the imagination.

MARTA CASALS
WOMAN, INSTANTS & WINDOWS

4th to 30th of June 2009
Inauguration: Thursday 4th of June from 7.30pm

Marta Casals, plastic artist born in Figueres in 1976, graduated in Fine Arts and Graphic Design, presents us her artwork in, what it is to the date, the most complete solo exhibition in an art gallery, the Espai Cultural Francolí, venue of teresarius: promotors d'art, from the 4th to the 30th June 2009.

In this exhibition two stages of the work that Marta Casals has developed during the last years are gathered. The first, "The universe of the woman", initiated in 2007 with a series of drawings and paintings where she explores the feminine figure, where the paintings show several attitudes in the face of the life through several flashes attracted by the brush.

From the first outlines of this series, paintings on canvas of greater sizes kept on appearing where she started to introduce new elements, like for example the series "windows", elements of the exterior that drew the attention of her and she chose with great success. Other paintings are a fruit of research with several materials, like paintings on silk and the overlaps of materials. This mixed technique has allowed her to create some textures, some colors and some transparencies that make her feel more near what she wants to express, figures that combine the expressiveness and the transparency appear, they are translucent and fragile, and at the same time of a strong personality.

The second stage of this exhibition goes around "urban subjects", however the presence of the human figure persists, and in all works the woman continues as a main protagonist, but in a different way, now already integrated into the urban life and interrelating herself; at the same time she shapes the instants of the daily life of these characters and of the reality that surrounds them. These women who stroll, speak and live in the city, could be the same ones that in the first stage looked at the exterior from their windows; now they have already gone out to the world, they already share it, surer, creating a circle that comes from the inside and it expands. Like this the works of Casals show the evolution of the woman and also of the same artist: now they already walk surer.

The Espai Cultural Francolí uses this exhibition for making a series of parallel activities around the figure of the woman (it is necessary to make previous booking):

- Friday 5th, Route 'Barcelona from the look of the woman', ConèixerBCN.
- Wednesday 10th, Lecture of opera 'Carmen of Bizet', Pere Zanuy.
- Friday 12th, interactive Workshop of self-esteem 'Love yourselve', Mar Galindo.
- Sat. 13th, Course of Photography 'The woman and the photography', TRÉBOLBCNART.
- Thursday 18th, Taste of wines 'The woman and the wine', Emma Giné.

BAG'09 [BarcelonaArtGay]

Group show of Gay Erotic Art
7th to 28th of May 2009

* Private View: Thursday 7th of May from 7.30pm
Vernissage: AGO CATERING & VINO GAY.
We will count with artists, Dj Lapablo, performance and projection of Lechifla (designers of the image of BAG'09), service of catering by Ago Catering and wine by Vino Gay. And the party continues from 11.30pm at Lotus Theater, Bailen 22. Including Live Session by Natan Spunker and Club Tropicana by Silvia Prada, "the best dance session in town".

BAG'09 [BarcelonaArtGay] is a cultural event of gay subject, created by Sergi Ortín, which is born this 2009 aiming for a maximum diffusion and its annual repetition. Everything turns about an art exhibition in the Espai Cultural Francolí, headquarters teresarius: promotors d’art (www.teresarius.com), following its multidisciplinar character together with an offer following varied cultural exprint and upward, from the 7th to the 29th of May. It includes painting, photography, sculpture, comic and video-installation of well-known artists and new values, and is accompanied of interesting related parallel activities during May.

Artists: Sergio Cattivelli, Roberto Delgado, Violeta Gomez, Antonio J., Invernot, Sebas Martín, David Mirás, Sandra Mondon, Elena Montull, Nazario, Ocaña, Olgaz, Daniel Torrent, Sandra Turnbull, y MR. WOOLMAN.

BAG’09 sights to the contemporary art from the re-assertion of an identity LGTB (lesbian, gay, transsexual and bisexual). The elaboration of esthetic proposals that inquire in the universe that forms the plural and different identity built by this group to fight the discrimination, the prejudice and the estigmatización accessing to their visibility with the intention of creating interesting subjects of analysis and debate in our society. The ‘Gay Art’ nowadays it is very much present in the international artistic panorama, it is already in magazines of trends, fashion and design, in the most in galleries of London, New York or Tokyo or in Art Fairs like Arco, Basel, Frieze or Miami.

Closure: Thursday 28th of May from 7.30pm. Wine by Louis de Vernier. Performance by Thomas Reydellet and Presentation of collection of leather by ATELIERFER. Live Session by Logical Disorder.

More information at: http://barcelonaartgay.blogspot.com

Espai Cultural Francolí
C/Francolí 13-15 principal, 08006 Barcelona How to get there
Opening times: Monday on Friday 10am to 2pm & 4 to 7pm.
Saturday by appointment

'GROUP SHOW ART FARRÓ-PUTXET'

Art of the Neighborhood in the Espai Cultural Francolí

From the 5th to the 27th of March 2009

Private View Opening: Thursday 5 of March from the 19 hours
Vernissage: Confectionery La Perla de Sant Gervasi.
Presentation of the show: María-José Vela, art creative.
Reading of the poem: "Cant Espiritual" of Joan Maragall by his grandson David de Moragas.
Life Music: Trio of the Educational Centre of Music Diaula.

The Association Art Farró-Putxet and teresarius: promotors d'art invite you to see the collective exhibition that will take place as complementary activity to the Open Workshops Days of the Farró-Putxet, in the district Sarrià-Sant Gervasi of Barcelona, in the Espai Cultural Francolí.

The artists of the Group will take part: Montse Vallès, Júlia Riu, Roser Busquets, Marcus and David de Moragas with painting, Teresa Sarrias Cruxent with painting and sculpture, Mercé Coma, with ceramics and Francesc Daumal, who his acoustic sculpture/architecture, an installation that has already been exposed beforehand in the Forum and in the FAD of Barcelona, will expose in the garden. Equally other artists as Marta Montcada and Maria José Botero with painting and engraving have been invited, Emili Bargués with painting and drawing, Pilar Masip with painting, engraving and sculpture and Arturo Roche and Ute Rebholz with painting, which take part in different parallel activities of the Group.

'ARCHI-TEXTURES'

Photography Group Show

Private View: Thursday 5th of February from 7pm
Dates: 5 to 27 of February 2009

“The city as a mirror of the soul. The stone as a vestige of a human past. Complete and incomplete spaces. Definition and imprecision. In any corner are hidden past and present truths that have never explained themselves and that the stones and the cement, the houses and the buildings, the villages and the cities, reveal to the educated eye of the photographer, with its own language of continuity and contrasts, presence and absences, colors and shadows. In short, the texture of the life of all us.”

The show accounts with wellknown artists like Cattivelli, Díez-Solano, Ela, Invernot, Palumbo & Sancho.

With this new exhibition, the Espai Cultural Francolí, headquarters of teresarius: promotors d'art, while following its multidisciplinary character, believes in the photography as a means of artistic expression upward, also finally in our country, and makes the opening of the third gallery room, broadening the space of its main floor house placed in the pedestrianised Francolí street in the Sant Gervasi area of Barcelona.

Moreover during this month of February the Espai Cultural Francolí organizes other parallel activities related with the photography.

Basic course, practical workshop, use of the camera, basic concepts, parameters to take into account, as to achieve better pictures. Saturday 14th February 10 to 18 h
Lighting. Day of portrait with model, practical workshop, basic lighting in the study with units of flash and utilization of the flash in requirements. Sunday 15th February 11 to 17 h

Looks through the City, photographic Itinerary. A walk for Montjuïch where the participants with their cameras of photos will discover one of the most emblematic areas of Barcelona. Saturday 21st of February 10 to 13 h. It is necessary to make previous booking: info@coneixerbcn.com or 687238377. Last day of inscription 16th of February.

II SHOW OF LIMITED EDITION PRINTS SHOW

Private View: Thursday 11th of December from 7pm
Dates: 11th of December 2008 to 30th of January 2009

Following the success of last years first graphic work showr and thinking of the Christmas gifts, the Espai Cultural Francolí, venue of teresarius: promotors d'art, has the pleasure of presenting this second show, a fine selection of lithographies and engravings of wellknown Catalan artists.

Clavé - Xavier Cugat - Cuixart - Guinovart
Marc Jesús - Marta Montcada - Plensa
Ponç - Ràfols Casamada - Tàpies - Tharrats

JOANA FIGUERES, ENCOUNTERS

Private View: Thursday 13th of November from 7pm
Dates: 13th of November to 5th of December 2008

The creative root of this Catalan artist, known already for many, comes to her given by the show business, having worked in theater and television, and always parallelly with the painting, finally she tended to this last. Hers are materic works, rich and elaborated, shows us an exquisite combination of colors, not so living as at the beginning but more reflexive, and mixed with one searched and always present texture, which she combines harmonically with the detail, with the drawing insinuated, with the subtle incision. They contribute undoubtedly the studies and the experimentation continued with the drawing, that sometimes turn up with a point of oneiric or surreal, sometimes with reminiscences of Klee or Ponç. Behind all this there is a will of expression without conditions nor approaches, undoubtedly, a priori, without strategies, Joana Figueres does not search the transcendence, but is more visceral, she searches an aesthetic communication. It is a burst of creation that is guided by the instinct, by the authentic feeling of the artist, by the desire to find her own way that it is not the result of any aesthetic prejudice.

JORDI GUILLÉN, THE FIRST JOURNEY

Dates: 9th of October to 7th of November 2008

The paintings of Jordi Guillén (Igualada, 1970) transmit us sensations of calm and harmony, they invite us to a personal reflection, stimulating the viewer to get lost in his own interior world, while having a walk, in a certain way melancholic, towards oneiric, very personal spaces and with a clear organic and natural reminiscence.

His paintings transport us to imaginary moments, they make us think of the human being like part of the nature, so at physical level as well as spiritual, they speak to us about palpitations, liberation, dreams, natural energies, invisible forces that surround us..., in short of this intimate and personal dialog that the artist has in relation to each circumstance of his life. With this so intimate and personal work the author speaks about some interior landscapes that attempt to establish a deep dialog between him and his creations, making at the same time participant of this dialog the viewer opening him a path that will drive him to poetic and sensitive horizons.

GROUP SHOW
Chamayou, Galbiatt, Gavilano, Marco, Martí Rom, Martín, Montcada, Sicardi,
Raventós, Tharrats, Torner de Semir, Tortosa, Turnbull, Uranga

Dates: from the 4th of september to the 4th of october 2008

To begin the season 2008-2009 we present a collective show with new works of painting, sculpture and photography of our represented artists. Coinciding with the collective exhibition we will celebrate two acts related with the collective of artists of the Farró-Putxet.

On Wednesday 17 September from six of the afternoon we will have an encounter in our space with the artists, open to all public, with cellar and aperitif included, and next will go to the inauguration of a collective exhibition of other artists of the neighborhood in the Casa Sagnier (Brusi, 61), of which as a cultural space we are part.

On Saturday 4 October, from 10am to 9pm, as an ending of our collective exhibition, we will enjoy the big party that the 2nd Day of Open Workshops of artists and artisans of the neighborhood of the Farró-Putxet supposes.

JORDI TORTOSA, OFF FILMING

Dates: from 3rd to 31st of July 2008

This summer Jordi Tortosa, plastic artist born in Sant Cugat del Vallès in 1959, presents a selection of his oil paintings. Tortosa proposes us a new project, related with one of his fascinations: The cinema. But he makes it in a way different to what perhaps we are accustomed. Tortosa discovers, under the sequence and under the basic goal of the film, the plastic force that there is on the basis of the communication. Jordi Tortosa's reflexion is about the instant, almost as a contrast of the sequence.

Tortosa has not aimed for a conceptual work (easy resource to avoid some of the many technical difficulties) but eminently plastic and expressionist. He is not completely faithful to the model and he appeals to the freedom of the artist to modify what he believes necessary. Thus, in some cases, he repositions the scene in other stages (generally Cadaqués) or he adds or takes out elements.